Day 154 of Year 2 (Actually Day 159)
Just a poem for today from a 10th century Sufi poet who lived a few hundred years before Rumi:
#21
By Abu Saeed Abil-Kheir
Do not seek stability here,
seek no rewards.
You will be here a day or five.
Seek to break no heart.
Day 20 of Year 2
If you keep seeking the jewel of understanding
by Abu-Said Abil-Kheir, trans. Vraje Abramian
If you keep seeking the jewel of understanding,
then you are a mine of understanding in the making.
If you live to reach the Essence one day,
then your life itself is an expression of the Essence.
Know that in the final analysis you are that
which you search for.